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  • This was the last stamping-ground of the Sioux, the biggest and toughest Indian confederacy in North America, a greater thorn in Washington's side than even my old friends the Apaches of the south-west.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • And how the flower of the flock were his own people, the Zaporozhiyan Cossacks, or Kubans, who had been moved east to new lands near Azov by the Empress generations ago, but he, Pencherjevsky, had come back to the old stamping-ground, and here he would stay, by God, and his family after him forever.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Afterwards, a trip to Glebe Point Road, only a few hundred metres from Sydney Uni my old stamping-ground in the late 70's, and coffee with Dr Tracie O'Keefe.

    The Dynamic Trio Zoe Brain 2008

  • Africa in return is a favourite stamping-ground for French businesses, with around 130,000 French citizens peppered across the continent and favourable trade figures compared to those of the larger United States -14.5 billion dollars of exports in 1997 against 6 billion for the US, 10.8 billion dollars in French imports against 16.4 billion.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • And Africa remains a favourite stamping-ground for French businesses, with around 130,000 French citizens peppered across the continent and favourable trade figures compared to those of the larger United States - 14.5 billion dollars of exports in 1997 against six billion for the US, 10.8 billion dollars in French imports against 16.4 billion.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • This was the last stamping-ground of the Sioux, the biggest and toughest Indian confederacy in North America, a greater thorn in Washington's side than even my old friends the Apaches of the south-west.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • This was the last stamping-ground of the Sioux, the biggest and toughest Indian confederacy in North America, a greater thorn in Washington's side than even my old friends the Apaches of the south-west.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • "This is an old stamping-ground of mine," said Jim.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • "Why, that's in the new fruit belt over near Wenatchee, my old stamping-ground."

    The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

  • We don't understand God's ways and purposes; they are too wonderful for us; but here I am on the Bowery, my old stamping-ground, telling the story of Jesus and His love.

    Dave Ranney Dave Ranney

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